Protecting-cell for cigars.



1.1. DITTGEN.

PROTEQTING CELL FOR CIGARS. AFPLICATIO FILED JUNE 24.1915.

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i JPEOTETING-CELL FOR CIG'ARS.

appncaimn med June 24,

To all fthom z't may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. DrrrGEN, a citizen of the United States of America, and aoresident of Gincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and tate of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Tmprovement in wtacle 'in which the goods are to be closely lar pouchesor pockets with a continuous imi p'acked on end, for both display and sale as Vwell as to enable the salesman or the consumerto readily extract one or more of the cigars without abrading-contact. with the remaining cigars in the package and, also, without allowing the said remaining cigars in the package to fall or move therein from their Originally-placed upright or on-end position.

- The object of the present invention is to provide a series,of independent, open, tubuperforate or unbroken, intact hacking-strip that is adapted to prote'ct alidsupport them in parallel array along one face thereof, such hacking-strip being of a liable or Jflexible material that is readily a apted to bend or hinge alongrtransyerse `lines between each p'air of open, tubular pouches or pockets so that thespiral-winding of a number of open, o

tubular pouches or pockets mounted along one face of said pliable strip can be readily accomplished and in just as tight or compact condition as it is advisable to pack the cigars in associated-relation subject to the proper removal or extraction of individual) cigars from the' respective pockets without injury to any of them. i o w o The details` of structure, that will include those ofv the individual, open, tubular pouches or pockets themselves, will be fully hereinafter 'described and then the entire devicelmore particularly pointed out in the claims that follow.

' In the accompanying sheet of drawings,

Figure 1 is a plan view of the form of blank oused in the make-up of the preferred structure of individual pouch or pocket connected with my invention herein; Fig. 2, an elevation showing a series of three open, tubular' pouches or pockets attached to the face of a specification of Letters Eatent.

strip, the latter'being shown broken vofi', at opposite sides of the series of said three pouches; Fig. 8, a plan view of a canI or ot'her receptacle used to contain the cigars when placed in a series of open, tubular pouches'or pockets that arev attached to my improved pliable winding and continuous, intact hacking strip, the lid of' such receptacle being removed and showing the cigars as they' wouldappear `on' display for sale and individual or separate extraction from the respective pockets for use; and Fig, 4, a fragmentary perspective view shawng a strip of continuous, imperforate, intact backing-material having a series of three open, tubular pouches on its face, with such backing-strip and' the pouches so folded as to be ready for further folding into fiatV closed relation similar to accordion-plaits ;for compactness when out of use but ready for spreading open, as, seen in said Fig. 4, for the convenient insertion of the cigars.

1 indicates an elongated strip. of equal width throughout and made` of paper or other suitable pliable material that 1s continuous, unbroken' and intact its entire length; 2, each one of'a series of open, tubular pouches or pocketsarranged and used in parallel arrayv |along one face of said strip 1, ,the latter forming a hacking therefor; and 3, anextended or protruding mouth or lip at the'opposite ends of each pouch, preferably vof arc-shape and finely serrated, as

shown at 4, for toning or softening the otherwise sharp edge.

vtion 5 and with upwardly-curved opposite ends a, a, that when brought together form the upper protruding-lip 3 when the blank is foldedalong the dotted-lines b, b and with` "theiropp'osite 'longitudinal-edges c, c duly Ilapped and stuck together. The lower' edge' i of the' said blank-form lhas a central pro; f

truding-portion 3 that dvelops or extends laterally into the opposite inwardly-curved edges d, d subsequently forming the inwardly-curved part 5 when said edges c, c

are lapped and stuck together. This blankform when folded along the dotted-line b, Z) and with the edges c, c stuck toget-her, constitutes my preferred form of pouch and 'the opposite ed'ges of said blank-form are finely serrated, as shown at 4, for the purpose previously described. The pouch is a tubular or bottomless one, as above stated, and is adapted to the ready insertion of cigars at either end thereof, or likewise eXtract-ion therefrom, so that when a series of the open, tubular pouches is transversely attached in juxtaposition and in parallel array along one face of the continuous, unbroken. and intact backing-strip 1 it is quite plain that whichever edge of the elongated strip, carrying the pouches, is before the person filling the pouches with cigars, such cigars can be readily inserted into place and, when the desired number of cigars has been placed in rotation in the pouches along the backingstrip,'the latter is cut of at the last-filled pouch ready for compactly-rollinv into the spiral-form seen in Fig. 3, the backing 1 being toward the person, with the filled pouches facing outwardly when the rolling of the package begins and thereby enabling a much better result, as the filled pouches will pack closer and the fresh or moist cigars given the desired flattened surfaces, the material of the backing readily hinging orV bending between adjacent pouches and the latter assuming the relation to each other that is well shown in Fig. 3.

6 indicates a metal can, or a suitable vessel of any other material adapted to hold the oustomary quantity of cigars 7 in `an upright or on-end position that is adapted to lbe exposed to view for inspection or display and, also, for the read withdrawal of one or more of the cigars rom their respective pockets w1thout,disturbing the remainder,

.such remainder remaining in their upright on-end normal position without liability to drop to one side or the other, or to' fall in the receptacle, and the continuous strip with its attached pockets thus holding all the cigars in an upright position until the last one has been removed from place in the package, and preventing injury or damage to the goods. The pouches may be made of moisture-proof material, and the backing 1 is' intended to remain in the receptacle and' to both protect and support the filled pouches while in said receptacle. The complete package can be readily reversed in the receptacle at any desired time, or even when it is partially filled for the inspection of both ends of the goods.

Fig. 4 has been placed on the drawings to show how the open, tubular pouches and'the backing can be folded or bent to enable them to be brought together in closed relation and flattened form, similar to accordion-plaits, in which flattened form they are packed in stock and readily adapted to bethrownjnto the open-position shown in Fig. 4 for the insertion of the cigars, only a few of the pouches being shown on the backing 1, but

suflicient to make the point clear as to how the backing and open pouches are adapted to be folded for the accordion-plait relation. It

is quite plain too, that the continuous, im-

ticular pouch, such series comprisin an 1m--.

perforate, flexible backing-strip an a longitudinally contiguous but disconnected series of parallel, elongated tubes whose backs are each attached along one face of said backing-strip and the latter adapted to be flexed in either direction between said disconnected' tubes whereby the disconnected series of tubes may be tightly'wound into a spiral bunch with' the cigars held longitudinally vupright within the said sales-receptacles to facilitate their inspection and, also, their removal therefrom, the latter either singly or as an entire unwound bunch, as desired.

2. A series of open, tubular pouches for supporting and protecting cigars packed in saleS-receptacles, comprising a flexible, imperforate, continuous paper backing-strip and a lon itudinally contiguous but disconneoted series of elongated, paper tubes whose' backs are stuck transverselyalong one face of said flexible backing-strip, whereby 'the pliability of said backing-strip between the contiguous but disoonnected tubes facilitates and permits the rolling of the series of mounted tubes for ready and compact insertion in said sales-receptacles with` their cigar-contentsilongitudinally disposed in an upright, endwise-display position therein and for ready individualremoval of said cigar-contents from the respective tubes free from abrading-contact' `with each other and from leaning or falling sidewise at any time iii the said sales-receptacles. g

i I JOHN J. DITTGEN: i Witnesses:

JOHN ELIAs JONES, BERL RIGDoN. 

